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Heinemann, Trine. 2010. The question–response system of Danish. Journal of Pragmatics 42 (10) : 2703–2725.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier

Annotation

This paper discusses question–response sequences in spontaneous Danish interaction. Danish is shown to have a high frequency of interrogatively and negatively formatted questions, when compared to languages with the same grammatical options. A high number of questions are deployed for making suggestions, offers and requests and repetition doesn't constitute a common means of answering a question.